Product Description

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The king of card games! Consisting of five royal families---clubs, hearts, diamonds, spades, and stars---the 116-card deck provides loads of opportunities to arrange your hand into sets and sequences. Form the right combination and be the first to leave the game. But watch out! One of your opponents can come from behind and win! Two to seven players, ages 8 and up.

Homeschool Specialist Review

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As a family we love to play games! We own several of the card games by SET Enterprises and enjoy them all. One of our all-time favorites is Five Crowns. In this game, you play 11 successive hands, starting with 3 cards and working your way up to 13. You have a wild card in each hand, but it changes according to the number of cards in the hand. This makes for a very interesting game, as you try to build sets and remember which card is the wild one. Since the object of the game is to get the fewest points and the potential to be left holding points gets greater as the game progresses, you really don't know who's going to win right up to the end.

Another favorite is Quiddler. It introduces questions like what are you doing when you yot or yote? Our whole family learned the answer to this and more, when someone had to defend their use of the word while playing this game. We encourage dictionary usage so you can share the definition of your words with your fellow players. With some help, even the very young can play . . . and win!

I was excited when I saw these cards with the black outline on the yellow cards. Unfortunately the cards I received are the cheaper made cards the don't have the black outline and that makes the yellow cards VERY difficult to use for a couple of my friends with vision problems. This is not the first place to picture one version - but send a different product.

Excellent card game. Ranks in top 10 games I've ever played. Great family fun. Easy to learn. Easy to take on trips. I also like Cribbage, Trumpet, Uecker, Quarto, Gobblet, Ticket to Ride - if you like any of those then you'll probably enjoy this game. Object is to acquire runs of 3 or more and/or 3s of a kind or more, then be the first to "go out" with zero points. Total of 11 hands are dealt, start with a hand of 3 cards, and then goes up to 11 cards in the final round. There are jack "wild" cards. Each round also has additional wild cards that consists of the card number equal to the cards dealt - 3 cards dealt, then 3s are wild, 4 cards are dealt and 4s are wild - fun twist that keeps you on your toes. I hope I didn't make it sound more difficult than it is, because it's easy. Purchased as a birthday gift for my 7 year old, who picked it up quickly. Great for sharp 6 year olds and up. Highly recommend this game. Also prefer Christianbook.com for their price and order fulfillment accuracy.

We have been passing the winter days with this game. Easy to learn and it usually comes down to the last round to determine a winner. Very good family game. Even the solitare version is great, but you need a large playing surface. Might play a few rounds in the crazy blizzard of '13. At least we won't need electricity to play, LOL